Is BJJ really this expensive?

From /u/Stewbender

I don't think immigration is the reason why it's impossible for small businesses to cover their overhead. It's got a lot more to do with consolidation of capital and large scale financial institutions passing their codified expectations of profit onto the property owners who, in turn pass them onto the property managers who set rents based on expectations that have little to do with the local economy.

When a locally owned business goes down due to excessive rent price hikes, it isn't because the property owner thinks they can get more rent from a bunch of Mexican illegals, it's because a payday loan (scam) business can shell out more than a martial arts gym.

That's not to say immigration policy doesn't call for close scrutiny. One would have to completely ignore history to say that nothing could wrong freely allowing any and all exogenous cultural groups to go wherever they wish, in whatever numbers they wish and occupy whatever economic niche they wish; since they have a greater affinity with/for each other than they do their host nation. This is not to mention the clashes of cultural values and all the diverse ways groups of peoples can run afoul of one another's expectations, etc etc etc.

TL;DR Your implied assertion is glib, knee-jerk and, above all, completely fucking retarded.

Lol, way to waste your time because you failed at reading comprehension.

Good run down on American economics, unfortunately for you, we are talking about European Socialism -- particularly that of Norway/Scandinavia.

No one was talking about America or Mexicans coming into America. I'm referring to MENAs flooding into Europe, particularly the the countries with the most generous social welfare like Germany, France, and most of Scandinavia like Sweden.

How you gathered that we were talking about America in the last two comments is beyond me.

Tl/dr: Learn to read.

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